Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.